Television review: Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe book retraces abduction and murder of Jean McConville and experiences of IRA bomber Dolours Price
Television: Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe book retraces abduction and murder of Jean McConville and experiences of IRA bomber Dolours Price+ from Thursday) sets itself is to deliver a pacy – even rip-roaring – portrait of the Troubles while acknowledging the suffering of the victims of political violence and the moral price paid by the perpetrators.
Bad Sisters review: Beautiful Dublin shines again as Sharon Horgan serves up another course of zinging dark comedyThe young Price is played with devilish energy by Lola Pettricrew, while in later life she is depicted by Maxine Peake as a guilt-ridden shell. We have a ringside seat as she and her sister Marian rise through the Provo ranks in early 1970s west Belfast after their belief in peaceful protest is beaten out of them in a run-in with a loyalist mob.
It goes so far as to sweep us up in that excitement when the sisters raid a bank dressed as a nuns in a scene that could have come straight from Tarantino . But the series is likewise at pains to confront the horrors of the lives lost and the traumas inflicted on those left behind. It forces the viewer to interrogate their assumptions about political violence as the characters on screen take the same agonising journey.
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